Thanks! A major new release of a software system as large as the
JDK is the direct work of many hundreds of developers, with indirect
contributions from thousands more. By way of thanks I’d like to mention
the major contributors here specifically:

Alan Bateman and Bob Vandette led
the charge to define a set of Compact Profiles for the Java SE
Platform so that applications that don’t require the entire Platform
can be deployed and run on small devices. Mandy Chung’s earlier work
on JDK modularization laid the foundation of the Profiles.

More than code Contributions of reviews, tests, and test results
are just as important as contributions of code. Oracle’s internal
quality and performance teams did their usual thorough job, and feedback
from the wider Java community was equally valuable.

Over 400 of the more than 8,000 bug and enhancement
issues addressed in JDK 8 were reported externally. These
reports came in throughout the release cycle, enabled by our regular
posting of weekly builds, but naturally the rate increased
after we posted the Developer Preview build in September. The
following early testers who submitted significant bug reports deserve
special mention: